Remember About Ransomware

Ransomware is malware that takes some aspect of your system hostage until you pay to have it released. Typically the software will encrypt the files in your My Documents or other such locations. You have to pay to get the decryption key. Some file encryption algorithms, like Blowfish, are effectively impossible to crack using today's technology.

The Trend blog makes a good point about ransomware: It's a good reason to keep your data files backed up. With a recent backup you can tell your filenapper to go [insert rude metaphor].

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